Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: The latest issue of MMWR, Vol. 63, No. 25, June 27, 2014 (HTML and .pdf formats available from the US Centers for Disease Control site). Note: To access this issue in the future, simply click on “Weekly Report” and then “Past Volumes” on the left side of the page.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Periodical: Current Issues in Economics and Finance (Vol. 20, No. 3, June 2014, .pdf format, 9p.). The title article of this issue is: “Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?” by Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz .

No. 397 “District Governance and Student Learning in Indonesia,” by Menno Pradhan and Joppe de Ree.

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Institute for Fiscal Studies [London, UK] Working Paper: “Modelling work, health, care and income in the older population. The IFS retirement simulator (RetSim),” by James Browne , Carl Emmerson , Katy Heald and Andrew Hood (w14/12, June 2014, .pdf format, 112p.). Note: Links to the abstract and the full text of the paper available at:

Rand Corporation Working Paper: “Estimating Intensive and Extensive Tax Responsiveness: Do Older Workers Respond to Income Taxes?” by Abby Alpert, David Powell (WR987-1, May 2014, .pdf format, 70p.). Note: Links to the abstract and the full text of the paper available at:

A. “Causal Linkages between Work and Life Satisfaction and Their Determinants in a Structural VAR Approach,” by Alex Coad and Martin Binder (Working Paper No. 809, June 2014, .pdf format, 16p.). Note: Links to the abstract and the full text of the paper available at:

B. “Heterogeneity in the Relationship between Unemployment and Subjective Well-Being: A Quantile Approach,” by Martin Binder and Alex Coad (Working Paper No. 808, June 2014, .pdf format, 31p.). Note: Links to the abstract and the full text of the paper available at:

June 24, 2014

University of Wisconsin Data and Information Service Center Country Statistical Yearbook Update. Our Country Statistical Yearbook page has added links to several yearbooks. Note: check carefully to see if the link is to a hypertext or yearbook, or information about a print one, as well as the language of the yearbook. Our Country Statistical Yearbook page now points to compendia for 151 countries. Unless otherwise noted, all are in .pdf format.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Data Release: ICPSR announced the release of a new datasets on June 22, 2014. Note: Some ICPSR studies are available only to ICPSR member institutions. To find out whether your organization is a member, and whether or not it supports ICPSR Direct downloading, see:

US Government Accountability Office Report: “Private Health Insurance: The Range of Average Annual Premiums in the Small Group Market by State in Early 2013,” (GAO-14-524R, May 2014, .pdf format, 57p.).

June 23, 2014

Statistics Canada/Statistique Canada Periodical: Juristat (June 2014, .pdf and HTML format). The title article of this issue is: “Cases of child and spousal support by age group of the child beneficiaries,” by Louise Desjardins and Mary Bess Kelly.

US Government Accountability Office Report: “Medicaid: Financial Characteristics of Approved Applicants and Methods Used to Reduce Assets to Qualify for Nursing Home Coverage,” (GAO-14-473, May 2014, .pdf format, 52p.).

14-27 “Enforcing Covenants Not To Compete: The Life-Cycle Impact On New Firms,” by Evan Starr, Natarajan Balasubramanian, & Mariko Sakakibara.

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US Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics Working Paper: “The Impact of Outages on Prices and Investment in the US Oil Refining Industry,” by Matthew Chesnes (Working Paper No. 322, June 2014, .pdf format, 42p.). Note: Links to the abstract and the full text of the paper available at:

June 20, 2014

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: The latest issue of MMWR, Vol. 63, No. 24, June 20, 2014 (HTML and .pdf formats available from the US Centers for Disease Control site). Note: To access this issue in the future, simply click on “Weekly Report” and then “Past Volumes” on the left side of the page.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics Article: “Comparing fatal work injuries in the United States and the European Union,” by William J. Wiatrowski and Jill A. Janocha (Monthly Labor Review, June 2014, .pdf and HTML format, 7p.).

US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Report: “Prevalence of U.S. Food Insecurity Is Related to Changes in Unemployment, Inflation, and the Price of Food,” by Mark Nord, Alisha Coleman-Jensen, and Christian Gregory (Economic Research Report No. (ERR-167), June 2014, .pdf format, 30p.).

UK Data Archive (Essex University, Colchester, UK) Data Update: The UK Data Archive has recently added the following dataset to its holdings. Note: There may be charges or licensing requirements on holdings of the UK Data Archive. For more information see: